[U-Boot] [PATCH v7 16/19] arm926ejs: Remove deprecated and now unused NAND SPL

[Tom Rini]

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On 02/18/2013 03:39 PM, Benoît Thébaudeau wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Monday, February 18, 2013 5:40:21 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 04:51:37PM +0100, Beno??t Th??baudeau 
>> wrote:
>>> Hi Albert, Tom, Zhong,
>>> 
>>> On Friday, February 15, 2013 9:54:22 PM, Beno??t Th??baudeau 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Beno??t Th??baudeau 
>>>> <benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com> --- Changes in v7: None 
>>>> Changes in v6: - New patch.
>>>> 
>>>> Changes in v5: None Changes in v4: None Changes in v3: None 
>>>> Changes in v2: None
>>>> 
>>>> arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/start.S |   10 ---------- 1 file 
>>>> changed, 10 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> I would like to get your feedback regarding the status of the 
>>> Samsung SMDK6400 board: - It is not in boards.cfg, so, 
>>> according to commit 1285a28, support for it should already
>>> have been removed a long time ago. It also seems to be the
>>> only board remaining in the main Makefile. - It uses the
>>> deprecated NAND SPL. - MAKEALL does not test its build, which
>>> has been broken for a while. - If it were removed or fixed,
>>> ARM1176's start.S' relocate_code() could be made identical to
>>> all the other implementations of this function, so all this
>>> duplicated code could be moved to a common location like
>>> crt0.S. Besides that, it would be possible to completely get
>>> rid of the legacy NAND SPL on ARM.
>>> 
>>> I have no intention of fixing this board, but dropping it and 
>>> cleaning up ARM after that would be easy.
>> 
>> I'm in favor of removing and updating README.scrapyard, baring 
>> quick attention from the maintainer to update it to not being 
>> using the Makefile and fix the rest of the breakage.
> 
> OK. The s3c64xx SoC and all the drivers coming with it then become 
> unused. Should this be removed too? There may be out-of-tree users 
> of this SoC.

Yes, it's what the scrapyard is for.  If an out-of-tree user exists
they can either support the reference board (and bring it back from
the dead) or their own board.

- -- 
Tom
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